Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:04:10 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kurt@...fried.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: gif2png: command-line buffer overflow problem
> How could this possibly be exploited? If you can trick a user into
> running gif2png [exploit payload], then that user has already lost.
It was reported that some CGI scripts/etc use it automatically so by
using a long file name it may be possible.
Personally I'm not worried but Debian/Fedora have fixed it as a
security issue so if that is the case a CVE would be nice for tracking
purposes.
> See also:
> make `perl -e 'print "A"x10000'`
>
> -Dan
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